Monday, September 25, 2006

As I wrote previously, the Pope did not offer an honest or direct apology to Muslims, but at least his meeting with the Ambassadors of Muslim countries was a step in the right direction. Dialog, even with an intellectually dishonest man, is slightly better than fanatics on two sides throwing bombs and rockets at each other. The question is, what is the dialog going to be about? It's not the Pope raining bombs and invading Muslim countries, and it's not the Imam of Kaaba sending suicide bombers to kill innocent children.

What these two religious leaderships can do is declare that:

a) crusading invaders like evil AND stupid George W. Bush are going to Hell, b) murderous evil cunning people like Bin Laden are going to Hell, c) killing 40,000 people in a country to make Haliburton rich is EVIL, d) blowing up civilians with suicide bombs is EVI,e) arming a Zionazi tyrant Israeli government to kill people in Lebanon and practice a new holocaust on Palestinians is EVIL,f) letting Arab-backed tribes kill people in Darfur Sudan is EVILg) protecting pedophile priests is EVILh) protecting CIA torture-masters is EVILi) defending Zionazi Israelis keeping Palestinians under Occupation is EVIL

The list could go on, but this would be a good start... I wonder, what would Jesus do? What do you think?